Short-staffed Antioch Police Department has residents on edge
Like many police departments across the Bay Area, Antioch is having a hard time filling open positions.
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Like many police departments across the Bay Area, Antioch is having a hard time filling open positions.
Like many police departments across the Bay Area, Antioch is having a hard time filling open positions. Andrea Nakano reports. (4-11-24) Website: http://kpix.com YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/CBSSanFrancisco Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CBSSanFrancisco Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/KPIXtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/KPIXtv
A man was arrested Monday in connection with a deadly shooting that killed a 36-year-old man in Antioch last month, police said.
Antioch police are investigating an alleged carjacking at a hospital in the city earlier this week.
The mayor of Antioch on Wednesday promised to bring back a proposed city ordinance to crack down on sideshows after a massive event was broken up over the weekend.
BART service between the Antioch and Pittsburg/Bay Point stations was stopped in all directions during the morning commute Wednesday because of a derailed train, transit officials said.
The Contra Costa County Coroner's Office identified a man found shot and killed in a vehicle Wednesday in Antioch as 36-year-old Frank James of Pittsburg.
Authorities in Antioch are investigating after a body was found Sunday morning, according to police.
A motorcyclist died in a vehicle collision in Antioch on Wednesday evening, police said.
The body of a man found badly burned Saturday in Antioch was most likely the result of an accidental fire and not homicide, police said Tuesday.
Over the last two years, the quiet East Bay suburb of Antioch has been wrestling with its long and complicated history of discrimination against early Chinese immigrants during the gold rush.
A person found dead in a fire is being investigated as a suspicious death, Antioch police said Sunday.
Eight people were hospitalized Thursday afternoon when a driver in a SUV rear-ended a Tri Delta Transit bus in Antioch, police said.
Fire crews in the East Bay are making progress on a vegetation fire in Antioch Friday afternoon that kicked up a large black cloud of smoke into the sky.
Contra Costa Fire Protection District crews are at the scene of a vegetation fire burning in Antioch wetlands along the San Joaquin River Friday.
Brentwood police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man suspected of exposing himself to victims at various retail businesses in both Antioch and Brentwood.
A 16-year-old boy from Pittsburg died of gunshot wounds he received early Saturday morning in Antioch, police said.
Antioch police recently welcomed a new interim chief to lead the department.
The Antioch Community Library reopened Tuesday with armed guards after being abruptly closed last week over crime concerns due to issues with staff being threatened, property damage and public sex inside and outside the library.
John Ramos reports on the Antioch Community Library employing armed guards after rampant crime issues.
The Antioch Library, closed because crime made it too dangerous for users and staff, will reopen Tuesday with additional security, the Contra Costa County Library announced.
The Antioch Community Library is being closed because crime has made it too dangerous for users and staff, the Contra Costa County Library announced Friday.
A federal jury on Wednesday convicted two men from the East Bay and one man from Humboldt County of multiple drug trafficking offenses following an eight-day trial that ended with one of the defendants fleeing, federal prosecutors said.
The city of Antioch on Wednesday swore in its first seven members of a new police oversight commission the City Council created nearly two years ago.
Two people have been arrested on suspicion of a January murder and attempted murder in Antioch, police said.
